"We're in trouble, brother."

Brian. Brass Whiskers in the warm halls of the King's Hall at Ironforge, to his brother Magni. Brass Whisker yelled:

"We unleashed the Stone Palate Monsters, those monsters didn't come after us, they must have been attracted by the sound of the gnomes' underground city, we must go and help the gnomes!"

"Wait!"

King Magni, who was dealing with the affairs of the dwarven kingdom, was a little confused, this stocky king, like Brian, had a beautiful golden orange beard, like a burning flame, that long beard was carefully trimmed, braided into a braid, hanging from the king's fine armor, and on either side of the king's kingdom, there was a war hammer, a battle axe, symbolizing the king's great strength.

Actually, and the reputation of Muradin. Like Prince Copperbeard, King Magni was a powerful king of the hills, though he had little reputation for martial arts as a symbol of dwarven kingship.

"Wait, Brian, my brother, you're making me a little dizzy... What happened to the gnomes? ”

The king looked at his brother in astonishment, and he asked:

"What is a stone palatinous monster?"

"It's a monster!"

Brian shouted, "The prehistoric monster we found in Uldaman was sealed in the ruins by the Titan Guardians, but we accidentally opened the ruins, and we suffered heavy casualties ourselves. ”

"Oh! I remember. ”

The king scratched his beard, and found the report of the Explorers' Guild among the scattered papers on the table before him, and as he looked at it, he said:

"You did report about the monsters underground, but didn't you say that the monsters were locked up in the collapsed mines?"

"That's my mistake, I underestimated these monsters."

The old bronze beard was a little embarrassed and said to his brother:

"I saw the message of the stone palatins from the messages left by the ancestors, they are extremely good at moving underground, they are attracted by sounds, they attack the unsuspecting from the underground, they are dangerous, brother, believe me, we must go..."

"Bang"

The door of the King's Hall was pushed open at this moment, and the royal guard wiped the sweat from his forehead, quickly walked up to the King, and handed a letter to King Magni:

"Your Majesty, monsters have emerged from the ground in the Coldridge Valley and Anvimar, as well as Sersama, the lords there have sent messages, they are asking for help, there are many monsters, they are killing our people!"

"Huh?"

Hearing that the dwarves themselves were at stake, King Magni could no longer be calm, he opened the pile of letters asking for help, took a cursory look, and then glared fiercely at his brother, who had caused great trouble.

"Order the Mountain Ranger Legion to rush to the Coldridge Valley as fast as possible!"

"Order the steam tank units deployed at the Kings Valley outpost to drive into Sersama!"

"And Nomorigan, brother!"

Brian. Although Copperbeard was reckless, he was not a cold-blooded man, and after realizing that he was in trouble, he said to his brother:

"And the gnomes, brothers, the covenant between the gnomes and the dwarves has been going on for hundreds of years, we can't leave them alone, those timid little men are no match for the stone palatines, we must help!"

"But I don't have that many troops in my hands! Brian! Mature a little! ”

King Magni slapped the table and shouted:

"The losses inflicted on Kazmodan by the orcs are significant, and we don't have enough troops to help them... If you really want to make amends for your mistakes, yes, I authorize you to give you a temporary order to contact Lord Kurtaz, the leader of the paladins, and if you can move them, I will allow you to take the paladins to help the gnomes! ”

King Magni roared, but soon he calmed down, and as he looked at his guilty brother, he whispered:

"The steel supply depot also has a group of steam tanks under repair and a few wounded mortarmen, this is the greatest support I can give you, as the dwarven king, I must be responsible for my own people first!"

After saying this, King Magni grabbed the weapon at hand, adjusted his armor, and said to the royal guard standing aside:

"Gather the King's Guard, and I'll take you to Anweimar! It is the sacred land where our ancestors thrived and cannot be desecrated! ”

Seeing that his brother had already gone into battle himself, the guilty Brass Beard was no longer embarrassed to ask for support, he grabbed his wide-brimmed hat and ran quickly to the hall where the dwarven paladins were, thinking about how to convince the stubborn followers of the Holy Light.

Dwarves also have paladins, and for hundreds of years, dwarves have been closely engaged in business with the human kingdom, some of them have simply moved out of Ironforge to live in human countries, and some have been granted titles of nobility.

Lord Kurtaz is a representative of these dwarves, who moved to the kingdom of Lordaeron 200 years ago, and was granted the title of baron by King Terenas by his father for repeatedly helping the humans in the Stratholme region fight against the threat of rotten moss trolls.

Because of living in the human kingdom for hundreds of years, at first, Kurtaz believed in the Holy Light just for the convenience of business, at that time he was a pan-believer, but after becoming the first baptized paladin, this lord became a sincere believer in the Holy Light, and after the end of the Orc War, Lord Kurtaz was commissioned by the Holy Light Church to return to Ironforge to spread the faith of the Holy Light.

But the dwarves have their own natural beliefs, the Hammer dwarves who retain the most primitive way of life and their own shamans, although the dwarves of Ironforge are not sincere in their natural beliefs, it does not mean that they will be interested in the holy light of mankind, so the mission of Lord Kurtaz is not smooth, several years have passed, and the number of priests and paladins in Ironforge has not exceeded 500.

This is a very small number of cities inhabited by hundreds of thousands of dwarves, but the good news is that, thanks to the paranoid nature of the dwarves, once baptized, they will soon become the most sincere believers.

"What do you say? Brian, the gnomes are being attacked? ”

Kurtaz was wearing a set of golden paladin armor, which he had made for himself, and while he drank his wine, he looked curiously at the old bronze beard who had hurried over, and he asked:

"Did the snowy trolls attack them?"

"It's not! Don't ask, Kurtaz, gather your paladins and priests with me! ”

Brian looked anxious, he grabbed Kurtaz's hand and shouted:

"It's too late, those monsters are still attacking Anvimar and Sersama, it's bad, we can't spare our troops to help the gnomes, I can only rely on you."

"Uh, honestly, I don't have a crush on those faithless gnomes, they're too noisy."

Lord Kurtaz shrugged:

"If I'm going to help, I'm going to help our people, there are a lot of weird things in the city of gnomes, and they don't fall that easily."

Seeing that Kurtaz was not interested, Brian gritted his teeth and lowered his voice:

"If you go and help, I'll find a way to get your priests to join the Explorers Guild, and whether or not you can recruit new believers depends on their ability, okay?"

"Huh?"

Lord Kurtaz's eyes immediately narrowed, he played with the wine glass in his hand, looked at old Brian, and after confirming that Brian was not joking, Lord Huo Ran got up and grabbed his Holy Light Warhammer:

"Very well, in a word, Brian... Wait a moment, and I'll gather the paladins! ”

"I'll be waiting for you at the steel supply station!"

Brian said happily:

"There are some steam tanks there that will make us get on our way faster... Let's hope the timid little ones will make it to our aid. ”

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"Let's go!"

In the dimly lit underground city of Nomorigan, Ella manipulates corpses and struggles to resist the attacks of the radiant stone palatines, and the battle line in the steam hall collapsed before 25 minutes, and the gnomes can only use bombs to blow up the halls to keep themselves safe, but there is good news, that is, the steam elevator that has been completely locked to prevent radiation from rising to the ground has started to run again.

The gnomes were being quickly sent to the ground, but if the stone palatins kept attacking, the refuges in the hall would probably not survive that time, so at the most critical moment, Ella led some willing dwarfs to ride mechanical birds, under the cover of the walking corpses, to redirect most of the stone palatins to the depths of the city.

"It's time for you to go!"

Ella said to the gnome recruits who followed him, "Go back the way you came, and I'll lead them deeper." ”

"What about you? Major? ”

A dwarf engineer shouted, "We can't just leave you here!" You saved us! ”

"Don't be stupid!"

Ella sarcastically said mercilessly:

"Your lives are meaningless to me, I'm just doing all this for my sister, get out! Don't mess with me! ”

As she spoke, Ella sat back on the mechanical bird, and in the sound of mechanical collisions, the walking corpses she manipulated began to run, but in the rear, the radiation-enhanced stone palatins were still in hot pursuit, these idiots couldn't tell the difference between the dead and the living, and seeing nearly a hundred "gnomes" running, they rushed over desperately to feast.

Seeing that some of the corpses were submerged by the stone palatines, Ella glanced back and sneered, her fingers hooked, and the high-explosive shells on the submerged corpses exploded, drowning a dozen stone palatins in the scorching explosion and scattered fragments.

The attack also blew down the road behind her, completely blocking Ella's hope of evacuating.

This made the little dwarf feel a touch of malice from fate, and she pursed her lips, manipulating the mechanical birds and the walking corpse without saying a word, and rushed deeper into the dead city.

"I'm sorry, Lumi, I can't seem to apologize to you personally."

Ella clenched the joystick in her hand, and she couldn't help but turn back again, where, behind her, her sister would be sent out of the city that had completely lost hope, and then live well in the world of the living, as for her, a person who should have died a long time ago, it was time to find her destiny.

After the mechanical bird lost power, Ella stood on the highest loop of Nomorigan, the stone palatins tore apart the walking corpses she carried, and surrounded her, Ella's magic had dried up, she supported her body with Julie's staff, and calmly looked at the ugly monsters.

She took a step back, her feet standing on the edge of the loop, half of her body already dangling, and she whispered:

"Tyrion told me that death is not a punishment... I hope so. ”

"Wow"

The moment a stone palatin lunged at her, Ella's body fell into the hollow behind her, and below was the central control room that had been contaminated by radiation, and falling from this height would have killed her.

The black cloak wrapped around her body, and in the midst of the hunt, Ella closed her eyes, ready for the onslaught of death.

"Ahh Monsters, traitors! Let me see you, my great invention! ”

And just then, an eerie roar sounded beneath her, and as the door of the central control room was shattered by artillery, a yellow-painted robot rushed out of the polluted ruins, and between the bricks and stones, orange thruster flames rose from the feet of the unfinished robot, propelling it to fly wildly.

The weak voice of the master craftsman Mecatok rang out from the robot, and he manipulated the mechanical claws, and in the blue mechanical sparks flew around, he pinpointed the falling Ella to the back of the robot.

"I can't stand this kind of thing! Hold on, little girl... We're about to start a big dwarf-like counterattack. ”